...there are achievements so great in their magnitude, so daringly tethering over the furthermost reaches of the scary Unknown, of such an overbearing and gut-wrenching hyperbolic value it would be a crime to confine them to one's own memory when they weep with the need to be shouted over the rooftops.

So I shall not keep to the modest silence that befits me so well.

I am wrapping Xmas presents.

And I am doing so sober.



Please, please do mind the crashing waves of applause that cannot but accompany such a statement. I wouldn't want you to be deafened.

Title: Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me, for moreteaplease2

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: Life begins to unravel for Severus Snape when a figure from his past shows up to wreck havoc. Can Remus Lupin be just the salvation he needs?

Rated: Holiday Spice (R)

Warnings: mentions of past drug abuse, previous minor-character death, low levels of violence and swearing.

Word count: 22668

Title: A Change for the Good, for nepenth

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: Severus is an intelligent, ambitious young man, but with the… ‘help’ of a friend he undergoes a radical sex change that revolutions his whole life.

Rated: Coal and Switches (NC17)

Warnings: Gender-bender (girl!Severus), completely AU, a teeny tiny bit of angst and fluff here and there.

Author notes: Merry Snupin Christmas, Nepenth! I decided to go with your first prompt, but I’ve never written gender-bender before and it probably shows. I had so much fun working at this fic, though… I hope I made a good enough job including everything you asked for! Big thanks go to my beta, the best of them all!! Ten points go to the people who get the anime/manga reference :P

Word count: 31311

Title: Compromising Times, for wolfiefics

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: I used wolfiefics' prompt number one – "A story featuring Remus, Severus and Sirius as a threesome. One of my favorite stories is McKay's The Thrill of Under Me You, so something similar to that line of 'reluctant love' would be cool." I hope you like it! And anonymous thanks to my betas without whom I would be lost.

Rated: Coal and Switches (NC17)

Warnings: Threesome, explicit slash sex of various types.

Pairing: Remus/Severus/Sirius

Word count: 7192

Takes the Cake, by Arionrhod and McKay is now complete!

Summary: A special competition on the highly successful cable show "Takes the Cake" pits two-time winner Severus Snape against equally successful Remus Lupin. As things heat up in the kitchen, will Remus be able to convince Severus that they share more than just a passion for baking?

Rated: R

Content: non-magical AU

Word count: 46638

Title: The Pain of His Company, for dizilla

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: Cursed by Voldemort, Harry is doomed to see the one he loves the best die in lingering agony. Meanwhile, Snape is forced to obey orders given by Lupin, who is out of his mind with grief over the death of a friend.

Rated: Coal and Switches (NC17)

Disclaimer: The characters in this piece of fiction are the property of J. Rowling. The situations are the author's own.

Warnings: Humiliation, fellatio, rape, S&M.

Notes: Consignum is a made-up spell, from the Latin "to consign." This story was written for the 2009 Snupin Santa exchange, and is a gift for dizilla.

Other pairing: Harry/Luna

Word count: 6293

Do YOU see slash in this picture? Like... blatant, slashy slash?

I went to have lunch with the hubby today (for those unaware, the hubby is in the US Army) and noticed that he had his Distinguished Order of Saint Martin on display and this picture is part of the presentation package thingy that sits out (it's apparently Saint Martin and a beggar... I think we ALL know what he's begging for *wink wink*).

I tried not to giggle. I did not succeed.

Yeah, yeah. Don't ask, don't tell. *sporfle*

So....not up for full fic-length stuff, but I really should try to write something this month.  So I offer to those who are still reading this journal the chance to get a Holiday drabble from me.

I am willing to do only HP or Merlin, though I might be interested in others in certain circumstances.  I need up to five characters and/or pairings to choose from, and a few different prompts of a word, saying, or picture, two or three of them at least.

Go for it. :)

You know, I was going post about my weekend and last night's choir concert, but after I read it over, I deleted it because it was so negative and complaining that I sounded as if nothing could ever make me happy. Kinda scary, actually.

So, all I will say about my weekend is that I froze my little patooties off, but we made money for the soccer league, and let people know, again, that yes, we have a soccer league in this town.

And all I will say about last night's choir concert is that it was long, interminable, soporific, and that my daughter's little solo group was one of two bright spots in the entire night, the other being the high school choir's third period performance group that performed a truly stunning acapella version of "Carol of the Bells." The audience was so relieved to hear something that wasn't hurting their ears that they broke out in what the Husbandly One dryly termed "premature clapulation" before the song was quite over!

And the Husbandly One made me extremely happy by bringing home some Extreme Chocolate ice cream last night. Life is good!!

And I am literally dancing with excitement until my contribution to harry_holidays is posted. I can't wait!!

I am close to finishing two afghans that I've been working on for what seems like AGES, and that I should have finished months ago. That's one of the problems with coming up with your own designs... you have no real stopping point. You just finish when you feel you've finished. Now, if I can just finish them before Christmas, then I can give the one that was supposed to be a friend's birthday present to her for Christmas.

*sigh* I am so lame!

And now, I must set the beans to simmer for dinner tonight. YAY!!

Current Mood: contemplative

Title: Flight of the Marauder, for kirasha

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: A series of mysterious bank robberies leads Inspector Severus Snape of Scotland Yard into the midst of a band of thieves who are far more than what they appear. As Severus is drawn further into the dark secrets surrounding one of the Empire's most notable Peers - and the biggest proponent of the steam technology which powers it - he discovers himself caught up in a web of murder, lies, deception and greed, and facing an irresistible attraction that might be even more dangerous to his life than the criminals surrounding him.

Rated: Holiday Spice (R)

Warnings: Character death (not SS or RL)

Notes: This story would not have been what it is without the unfailing encouragement of M., or the phenomenal work of my beta, E., who kept me in line not only as far as spelling and grammar, but in points of Victorian society and law. Thank you both, I couldn't have done it without you!

Word count: 30361

Title: You Only Live Twice, for karasu-hime

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: It's not often that a tired, worn-out werewolf gets a second chance at life. It's even rarer for a bitter, cynical professor to get a fresh start. What happens when they get their second chance at the same time?

Rated: Gingersnaps (PG13)

Note: AU as of "The Seven Potters" chapter in DH.

Prompt from Karasu Hime: "De-aged fic: Severus and Remus come back with the help of Hermione, however they come back in their 18 year old bodies. And boy is Remus horny! With his wolf hormones on the rampage, he tries every which way to get into uptight Severus pants. I'd like to read the different ways he tries, how he gets snubbed, obstacles, angst then the happy ending. No over the top fluff, please!" I hope this works!

Other pairing: Charlie/Tonks

Word count: 6606

Title: The Space Between, for rudika

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: Prompt: AU/AR Remus is a college student majoring in Physical Anthropology. Snape is in the medical program, studying phlebotomy. They begin meeting in the cafeteria every Wednesday (the day when Remus' rowdy friends are usually in classes without him). But when the next semester comes around, Remus and Snape are in the same Anatomy class... along with Remus' annoying friends.

Rated: Gingerbread & Cocoa (PG)

Warnings: AU/AR, some not-so-nice language/attitudes on the part of Sirius and James (homophobia and gay bashing), SERIOUS Sirius bashing ^_^

A/N: Erm, the story is not 100% correct because the University that I chose does not offer the program that you wanted, but I wanted to stay true to the prompt. Remus and Severus are Americans in this story for purposes of plot and because all I am familiar with is American college culture. This story took me many places that I had no idea about. I hope that I have lived up to your original prompt well enough, while adding a little bit of me into it.

Betas: The wonderful D and B who came through at the last second when I needed them most. Thanks girls ^_^

Word count: 6411

The following story was added to Moonshadow, the Snape/Lupin archive, during the past week:

"Standing Outside The Fire" (126 K) by azurerosa

The following art was added:

"Snupin" by Mun 2513

The archive is located at http://www.ssf-moonshadow.com

Two things today:

Thing one--Merlin.
( spoilers for The Witch's Quickening )

Thing two--Sims 3.

Since Sims 2, my first and most-important cheat mod is the same-sex pregnancy patch.  Easy enough to find.  One of the earliest patches to come into existence.  However, there is, no shock, a group of modders/players who don't like that mod, or think it worthy of attention.

One of the new sets of mods this time around is facial sliders and body sliders to make for more extreme modding of the way the sims look.  Which is great.  Right?  Except that the first patch hasn't been updated since the game has been patched to 1.3.  Their reason?  There's a "great mod" out there that does it instead.  Except this mod?  (The Awesomemod, in case you're wondering)  Mods a *TON* of things.  Sure, you can configure *some* of the mod.  But it's a global mod.  Which means if you have any other mods that affect overall gameplay?  It makes them not work.  Like a same-sex patch.  And the one request I saw to have them add a same-sex pregnancy component was met with an extremely rude reaction.  So no help there.

So....my choice has basically become either live without kids for same sex couples, which I refuse to do, or live without the sliders, which at this point annoys me *almost* as much.

*Is a VERY unhappy elf*

Current Mood: aggravated

I'm following a few different fests this year aside from Snupin Santa: HP Yule Balls, Harry Holidays, Kinky Kristmas, and Snapely Holidays. Some RL/SS has popped up already, so I thought I'd do a periodic link round-up of RL/SS gifts posted in other fests throughout the month. If anyone is following other fests and spots some RL/SS, please feel free to do the same!


Stories:

A Haunting Past
Pairing: Lily/Severus/Remus
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Remembering the past is one thing, but living with it is another.
Word count +/- 4,000
Warnings: see gift post


Open Hand
Rating: NC-17
Summary: After the war, Severus must decide whether or not he wants to pick up where he left off with Remus, and Remus helps him make up his mind.
Warnings: not canon compliant in that Snape and Lupin survive the war and Teddy isn't Remus' biological child, mutual masturbation, use of Legilimency during sex, desperation, established relationship
Word Count: ~6000


Art:
A Holiday with Old Friends
Rating: PG

Title: Touch Me..., for snapealina

From: Your Secret Snupin Santa

Summary: Merry Christmas, Snapealina! You said that if you received a gift of art, you wanted something lovable and beautiful. I hope this will do. :D

Rated: Gingersnaps (PG13) - not totally safe for work or peeking at in the company of prying eyes

Medium: Pencil on paper

Notes: Please do not take and use Snupin Santa gift art for icons, wallpaper, or any other purpose. It's intended for the recipient alone.

Why oh why, my friends, has no one rec'd this yet? This was the first Snupin Santa offering and it's bloody brilliant! I love a fic that can blend humor and hot boy-sex and this delivers beautifully. Honestly, just thinking about the fic brings a grin to my face. The prompt was for an Enid Blyton type story -- if you're from the US, think Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew --but with pron. It's an utterly delightful AU romp with cameos by several other HP characters, such as Remus' eccentric Uncle Albus (who apparently leaves 'dubious literature' lying about to give young Remus naughty ideas), a "rusted death-trap – affectionately known as 'Minnie', the housekeeper Mrs. Sprout, and others. If the idea of fresh-faced wholesome boys in shorts, long socks and sandals biking around Cornwall, having advetures by day and becoming 'very special chums' by night all while usig phrases like 'corking', 'cracking good time' and "I'm going to, you know… fellatio>..." doesn't appeal, well, then I can't help you. If it does, though, then crack open a bottle of ginger beer, go here http://snupinsanta.annex-files.com/viewstory.php?sid=379&chapter=1 and have yourself a jolly good read.

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I tried to make a LJ and could not even get the site loaded Oo

I have decided that daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas fest is really secretly a Make Eey Happy fest.

Hello, my kinks. I would rec specific fic and art from this fest, but seriously, it's ALL so damn delicious that I can't pick just one.

I urge you all to go to Kinky Kristmas and roll around in the kinky dirty gorgeousness that's been posted.

As for the other fests I'm participating in/reading, have some fic and art!!

A Holiday With Old Friends on snapelyholidays. Snupin art with a bit of backstory ficlet. Lovely and awesome. I love this person's Snape.

A Haunting Past on snapelyholidays. Severus/Lily/Remus with some delicious potion's accident smut. God, I love it!

Rock and a Hard Place on snarry_holidays. Lovely dirty wall-sexxin' Snarry art. I love this "mystery" artist to pieces, and this is just one example of why!

Of Hope Restored on snarry_holidays. This one's long (20k+), but with forced bonding, deaged Snape Snarry, can you really turn it down? Can you? I didn't think so. :D It's an awesome fic.

The Storm and After on harry_holidays is some dark and gritty and perfectly dystopian Drarry with some incredibly ingenious and imaginative magical effects. I'd be reccing this up and down even if it wasn't for me. The fact that it's my gift? Is just the icing on the cake!

Cultivating Trust on harry_holidays is a lovely, sweet Draco/Neville with a perfect blend of Narcissa and Scorpius. It's beautifully written and Neville really shines in this fic, which I love to see. :D

The Song of Surrender on bestmates_xmas is a gorgeous, long bit of Harry/Ron fic in which Ron goes above and beyond for Harry. Harry has special needs in this fic (rope bondage kink) and it's just perfectly written. I loved how the author handled the relationship here. It was believable and perfect.

Ego Boosting on bestmates_xmas is a really wonderful fic in its own right, but it OWNS MY HEART for the fact that there are TABLES full of NUMBERS in this fic! NUMBERS! TABLES OF THEM! *loves* *loves so much* Y'all have to go read this one. It's fun and awesome and so much a perfect example of why I secretly love this pairing to death.

The Distraction of Attraction on bestmates_xmas is another lovely, fun, bromancey fic. I know, I'm reccing a lot from this fest, but everything's been so awesome and great and really, they've posted a LOT of fic there, so. Heh.

A Little Sideways on smutty_claus was a lovely and almost heartbreaking Cedric/Luna. I think I might have held my chest through most of it. Very awwwww and sniffle. LOL.

AND! Last but not least, happy_trekmas began posting today, and they started off with a bang!

Double-Ridged is Kirk/Spock art of deliciousness, exploring one of my favorite tropes from that fandom. Whee! Spock-cock at its finest!

Gah, I've read a ton of excellent fic this season, and it's only the first week! How will I ever keep it up? Hehehehe. "Keep it up." Heh.

Oh, and just in case you just wandered in and have never met me before, all the art linked from here is NWS! Because I'm a perv like that.